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May/Wonnemânôd 21, 2018 Manostag

5/21/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, room addition, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Pertho: Dice cup, issues concerning: the lucky roll of the dice, questions of luck, the consideration of Wurt/Urlag (the ordeal of Humankind), the Wurtâ; Urda (that which was), Werdanda (that which is becoming) and Sculd (that which is owed), the realization of hidden potential, interwoven yet independent Wurt, good fellowship and happiness, secrets revealed, the collective consciousness, the Well of Knowledge for true growth.
Conversely:
The presence of negative Wurt, an unlucky roll of the dice, bad luck, secrets remaining secret, delusions, fantasies, megalomania, outside the collective/individual consciousness, out of touch with reality, negative forces set in motion, that which is unknowable, the need to deal with uncertainty, unpleasant contractions of birth pains, secrets remaining secret, take no chances.
*A2R6
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Thorn: 
Havamal 148:
A third I take, when danger threatens,

To bind the enemies through magic:
Thus, I dull the steel of the furious opponent.
Like the staff, his sword does not cut anymore.
 
Donar, deflecting an opponent, making ineffective, protection from danger, enemies bound through magic, impermeable, an awakening, the power to turn, the divine will to act, the law of eternal reincarnation, power to become, Return, new emergence from what's apparently old and dried-up, formative power of the seed, the thunderbolt, targeting goals, activity and the phallus, mental telepathy, projection of the will, fierce protection, psychic attack & defense, penetrating time & space, a constant renewal of life in rebirth, Rune of opposing polarities and of joining opposites, binding of and victory over the enemy.
“Preserve your ego” (List, 51).
*H1R3
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Interpretation: Luck (Pertho) leads to deflection (Thorn).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep, but for Toby yapping like he had something cornered, to which I responded from the bedroom since windows were open.
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Quick good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Scheduled a Safelight appointment online
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Welp, 09:00 and no framers here to fix the floor.
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Breakfast experiment with my new Egglettes Egg Cooker I purchased from Amazon.  As I got it used, there were no valuable instructions.  First three eggs a disaster, but edible for breakfast with potato coins, deli-ham and a whole wheat English muffin.  2nd three eggs in the Egglettes Egg cooker, slightly sprayed with cooking spray…SUCCESS!  This article and video were very useful: http://freakinreviews.com/egglettes-reviews/
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11am and no one here to work on the room addition.
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12noon, call into Elite Construction; new subflooring will be delivered today and framers will start fixing the room addition floor.
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Shortly after noon the framers arrived to repair the flooring/foundation faux pas
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Toby and I out for a perfektly behaved, noon hour, 30min walk
*mild, sunny, no breeze
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Separated recyclables
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More Mom’s Memory Sandwich Spread on Whole wheat bread with onion rings; my doctor said to refrain from French fries; carbs/starch, I think.  She said nothing about onion rings…LOL
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Nothing, absolutely nothing at the table shaper all night.  Usually SOMETHING shows up sometime during the shift, but nothing.  12 parts in layout kept me busy enough, though; from stage, to layout, to drill to trim, and started the debur.
*There was a flurry of construction of activity just prior to me going to work.  I became concerned that the workers may not have given Toby adequately serious consideration.  I called my neighbor from work asking him to check on Toby.  Yep, Toby was safe in the backyard.  I have some really good neighbors.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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01:30 nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Nirdu, brother-husband, to Nirda, parents of the Wanâ; Ing-Frô and the Frouwa, beloved god of harbors and seas close to land; help us to remember the cargoes of wealth that float to our doors daily from the wonderful Universe in which we live. Though our misfortunes may rise and fall like the tides, the chance of prosperity, like the eternal sea brimming with fish, is still there. Like the salt-sea spray, awaken us to the possibilities that surround us, so that our nets may be cast wide and return full of life’s gifts. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, NIRDU, as we honor the Nirdu that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 20, 2018 Sunnastag

5/20/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: domestic stuff
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day/Sunday (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
* no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
(picture added 3/26/2016)
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Jera: Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, expansion, growth, progress, patience, fruition of plans, the mystic union between Earth and the Cosmos, the result of a previous action, appropriate reward for the right (or wrong) action.
*A2R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Hagal: 
Havamal 152:
A seventh I learned, if the hall is burning

With fire around bench and comrades;
However bright it burns, I will banish the blaze,
As soon I sing the magic chant.
 
To enclose/destroy, danger brought under control, introspection, awareness, eternal change, the Mother of all Runes, the cohesion of the world, die (pronounced ‘dee’ German for ‘the’) Alle Mutter, Frija, that which cares and maintains, protects, and preserves; that which is motherly; wisdom, harmony, salvation, blessing, protects from hail and fire, eternal change, caring and maintaining principle in the Universe, Higher Self, the perfect human being, Divine within, the Rune of humanity, married to the World, Rune of enclosure but contains a potential for growth, builder/architect of the worlds, the macrocosm of the world itself.
“Harbor the All in yourself, and you will control the All” (List, 54).
*H2R1
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Interpretation: Balance (Jera) leads to awareness (Hagal).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep until Toby woke me @ 05:30
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Pancakes with fruit and whipped cream
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Time on Chewey.com chatting with an associate, getting Toby back on Science Diet Derm Defense canned food, and ordering another bag of dry food.  These people have always been so helpful.
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Toby and I out for a mid-morning, well behaved, 30min walk.
*cool, overcast, slight north breeze
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My best buddy over with his wedding gift since he won’t be able to make the wedding.  We reminisce so much about our church days, realizing we both got the support we needed at the time we needed it.  At the same time, we both have changed so much, and accept the change in each other.  THAT is true friendship.
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Brother over, too.
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Three Mom’s Memory Sandwiches
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Lowe’s; florescent lights for the kitchen + a couple for the bedroom
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MLS results for this weekend https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Minnesota 1-1 Sporting KC https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2018-05-20-minnesota-united-fc-vs-sporting-kansas-city/recap on FSKC/Sling-TV
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Cleaned all stand-fans and all window a/c filters
3 loads of laundry
Cleaned house to presentable standards
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Call into the Jarlskona about my changes to her wedding involvement.  She reminded me of her son’s HS graduation party.
Call in from the Contractor.  He will have the floor in the room addition fixed
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BK for a lite-lunch
Bank
Dillons
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Nice graduation party.  Z_ has grown into a fine young man.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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23:30 nighty night
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God/dess Meditation: Sunna, goddess of the Sun:
Greetings to you Sunna, in all your feminine, fertile glory; Lamp of Wodan, newly risen! Hail to you who is the counterpart to Mano, male aspect of the Moon.  You have shown on all our ancestors, you shine on us, and you will yet shine on our decedents yet unborn. Share with us some of your light, your energy, your power, so that we might better fight our battles and attain our goals. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL SUNNA, as we honor the Sunna that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 19, 2018 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

5/19/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: ????????????????
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Thurisaz: Giant, Donar, the Strong One, defender of the Folk and Ensigart, strength, indelible raw masculine power/strength, reactive and directed force, courage, a breakthrough, self-empowerment, defense from within, defend against outside forces, breaking down barriers, self-defense, assertiveness, facing opposition, bravery, the ultimate mortal fighting force, fertility, fight or flight; choosing to fight.
Conversely:
Thorn, Outside the favor of Donar, the strong One, indelible weakness, powerless, beware of enemies from the outside, defenselessness, failure, disruptive opposition, lack of fertility, shadow of the unconscious, disease, explosive/mindless violence, an enemy's victory, introversion, trouble, betrayal, physical abuse, cowardice, destruction, a loss of masculinity, fight or flight: choosing flight.
*A1R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Is:  
Havamal 154:
A ninth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me

To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
 
Calm in the face of distress, comfort, hypnotic power of the forceful will, course of affairs, Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, personal will, self-domination, self-control, confidence, determination, extension of the Divine center, the upright human being, the awakened Self, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil, unity in the Universe, duration, action in the Cosmos, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the Universe, duration, magical powers, axis/column/Irminsul of the world, action in the Cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary, calm.
“Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strive against you” (List, 56).
H2R3
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Interpretation: Raw masculine strength (Thurisaz) leads to calm in the face of distress (Is).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7 hrs of sleep in spite of a 7am ist wake-up; slept-in until after 9am.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 257
Glucose: 117
BP: 138/82
Pulse: 84
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Turned on BBC America on Sling-TV to watch the Royal Wedding; too much stuff leading up to it.
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Leftover pizza for breakfast.  Guy from work let me take several pieces home last night.
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Forgot all about going out to lunch with my WONDERFUL niece.  Hungry or not, I met them at Connie’s Mexico Café https://www.facebook.com/Connies-Mexico-Cafe-117161082280/ Afterward, we all retired to my place so they could see the room addition construction.  My nephew-in-law gave me some good insights about the flooring faux pas.
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Call into contractor, left a message that the floor has to drop.
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Watched the Royal Wedding on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyzX78_FgBLOEoQgP4FREbFRcTu7DSzIR
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I took quite a bit of time searching for something I could use as a hand-stamp for the wedding.  I want everybody in attendance at the wedding to get their hand stamped to insure they eat first.  As I have never searched for anything like this, I had no frame of reference for what I was searching.  I came across one for Joann Fabrics.  Well hela, there’s a Joann Fabric close-by so I went out to see.  Found a very doable one.  Leaving, I happened by an IHOP and almost stopped in, only to think, whatever they serve, I can emulate.  I make every effort NOT to give into a craving, but pancakes with fruit and whipped cream…YUMMY!
*Off to Dillons!
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Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon; the Sword of Destiny on Netflix…not interesting enough
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Fell asleep in the recliner
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God/dess Meditation: Frouwa & Ing-Frô:
Frouwa, most lovely of all goddesses; who could not love you?  Women as their own inner glory and highest attainment as the self-made woman, men for your beauty, passion and strength. Praise to you for the gift of life, and for the love that makes life worth living. Remind us always that it is the strong who love the best and the most, and that only the mighty can truly be gentle. Fill our lives with passion and lust that we may live our lives to the fullest. WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HEIL, FROUWA, as we honor the Frouwa that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Ing-Frô, you’re the Great God of Fridu (all-encompassing safety and protection), Ar (peace, good seasons), the good harvest and prosperity: you are indeed the god of this World. When the day to day wears us down remind us of pleasures and joys. Help us recall the wonderful excesses that brought our lives into being and which sustain the human spirit during good times and bad. Without you, there would be no life and certainly little delight. Thank you, Ing-Frô, for the rushing life spirit and the eternal play of passions that make our lives fruitful.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, ING-FRÔ, as we honor the Ing-Frô that resides in all of us!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 18, 2018 Frijastag

5/18/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: Ancestry.com) (Gravesites @ Mennonite Brethren Church Cemetery, Lehigh, Kansas)


Frijastag/Frija’s Day/Friday (great grandparents) David D. Schmidt (1852-1924) and Elisabeth Zülke (apx1856-1932) 
David D. Schmidt
Birth 11 June 1852
Death 18 March 1924 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Married 22 February 1876
Elizabeth Zülke (1856-1932)
Birth 4 JAN 1856 in Waldheim, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 19 JUN 1932 in Lehigh, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Laguz: A body of water, the necessity of water as a life source, life well-lived, life ever-flowing; seen and unseen, going with the flow, fluidity, the leek (a healing herb) the feminine, Nirdu, Erda (Mother Earth), Ing-Frô and Frouwa, emotions intact, potential for life, magical workings, conform with emotions, personal growth, the basic energy and secret source of organic life, feeling, the deep minded Spirit, intuition.
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A dried-up body of Water, the struggles of life, swimming upstream, difficulties with relating to the feminine, manipulation, lack of moral fiber, emotions out of control or suppressed, shallow minded, deception, unsympathetic, totally void of growth, failing to go with the flow, frivolity, immaturity, depression, inability to formulate with the emotional world, unstimulated, sinking/drowning, disconnect with the Inner Self.
*A3R5
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ar: 
Havamal 154:
A tenth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me

To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
 
Dangers calmed, protection, challenges eased, comfort/stillness, primal fire, nobles, destruction of physical darkness reborn into spiritual light, confidence, Ing-Frô, the Sun, the path to the Light, will, leadership, all that which is beautiful and Sun-like, change to good, virtues, honor, glory, rewarding work, completion, light, Divine spirit, power contained in light that washes away darkness, wisdom, beauty, virtue, trust, honor, fame, Rune of the initiate, Symbolism of the Lord of the Light-elves that returns home from darkness, Rune of peace and good seasons.
“Respect the primal fire” (List, 56).
*H2R4
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Interpretation: Fluidity (Laguz) leads to dangers calmed (Ar).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: Somewhere between 7 or 8 hrs of solid sleep…not sure
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Out early to button-up a couple of holes in the construction area so Socks doesn’t make his way into either of the crawlspaces.
*Laguz/Ar
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Contractor here to talk about the placement of windows in the outer corner of the room addition and within the bathroom.  He also helped button-up the crawlspaces.
*Laguz/Ar
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Well hela, there a bit of a problem with the room addition.  The foundation is a foot too high; hence, the floor is a foot too high.  I’m not sure how the contractor is going to deal with this or make it up to me.
*Laguz/Ar
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Call into COX Communications about getting cable moved to accommodate the room addition.  Someone should be out to inspect either today or tomorrow.
*Laguz/Ar
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Oat cereal + ½ bagel with honey + open faced breakfast sandwich on ½ bagel
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, late morning/noon-hour, 15min, 3 block roundy-roundy.  I finished 15min on the treadmill
*partly cloudy, warm, strange east wind.
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Shower
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Mom’s Memory sandwich spread on whole-wheat bread with potato coins for lunch
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Hardly anything in the shop.  I finished what was on the table shaper, deburred another, and the sister order to my bread-n-butter showed up right before the dinner break, which I finished.  I left after five hours and clocked 3 hrs of vacation, which put me right at 50hrs remaining.  For the little bit of work in the shop I easily turned-in five hours before I left.
*Laguz/Ar…LOL
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Gotham S4 Es 21 and 22; finishing the season.  WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW!
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Thunderstorm started rolling in right about midnight.
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Last check on all fur-kids; Socks is already safe in his house, Essie is in her safe closet, Toby hasn’t left my side since it started.
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24:45 nighty-night
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God/dess Meditation: Frija:
Frija, Great Alle-Mutter; caregiver of Family, Hearth and Home, wife to Alle-Vater Wodan.  Teach us to be patient but not passive; wise but not haughty in our wisdom; far-seeing yet not blind to that which is before us. May we nurture life, increase life, and live our own lives more fully. Through you we give honor to our human mothers. Through you we see all the beauty that surrounds us as well. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, FRIJA, as we honor the Frija that resides in us all!  HEIL ALLE MUTTER HEIL!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 17, 2018 Donarstag

5/17/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, hopefully framing material, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Flags:
  1. Holy Roman Empire until 1711-1740
  2. Kingdom of Prussia 1701-1918
  3. US flag 1850 31 stars
  4. Oklahoma state flag
  5. California state flag
Donarstag/Donar’s Day/Thursday (great, grandparents) Peter Reimer (1868-1937) and Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Peter Reimer (1868-1937)
Birth 17 July 1868 in, Kleefeld, Molotschna, Russia
Death 12 Jan 1937 in Kern County, California, United States
*Married 9 April 1893
Eva Hiebert (1874-1929)
Birth 13 Jan 1874 in, Alexanderwohl, Molotschna, Taurida, Russia
Death 20 Aug 1929 in Fresno, Fresno, California, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Jera: Harvest, 12th Rune of the Futhark, the number 12, cycles, a turning point, cause and effect, the Rune of return, two halves of a cyclic whole, harmony-in-movement-in-balance, improvement, expansion, growth, progress, patience, fruition of plans, the mystic union between Earth and the Cosmos, the result of a previous action, appropriate reward for the right (or wrong) action.
*A2R4
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Tyr:
Havamal 157:
A twelfth one I sing, when I see through the brush
The hanged one swinging from the hemp;
He climbs down from the trunk, must tell me his tale
When I carve the Runes right.
 
Rebirth, renewal, rising from the ashes, excitation, revelation, mysteries revealed, sacrifice, rebirth of the Sun god, fertility and/or destruction, generation, power, success, wisdom, duties fulfilled, art of concealment and hiding, rebirth into the light - life of the soul, the power to make situations turn completely around, spiritual understanding, the power of regeneration, warrior strength, justice, balance, personal sacrifice of the father, resurrection/reincarnation/born again; “Do not fear anything, even dying cannot kill you.  Better to die than to be dead alive” (Gorsleben).
“Fear not death - it cannot kill you (List, 58).
H2R6
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Interpretation: Harvest (Jera) leads to rebirth (Tyr).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of solid sleep…nice!
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Plumber here to check on his guys’ work
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Essie for a bit of outside time
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Call to WSU alumni; I forgot about this being a sales pitch.  I declined but left them my information for the WSU greater good.
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Framing materials arrived.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Oat cereal + a banana + a breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin = BREAKFAST!
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Framing material delivered
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Toby and I out for a late morning/noon hour, well behaved, 30min walk.
*warm, partly cloudy, no breeze
*ya know, I may have to limit Toby’s part of the walk to a three-block roundy in this warmer weather, but there is no way I can guarantee an earlier walk.  With this warmer weather, I carry a portable water bowl bottle, and Toby always gets a drink about ½ way.  Still, this warmer weather is noticeably wearing on him as his tongue is just a-dragging.  I can always finish on the treadmill.
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Call into Royal Flush.  I noticed his guys didn’t seal up the crawlspace access well enough.  I think Socks may be under there.  Now I’ll have to wait until I know Socks is in his house.  Then I’ll call Royal Flush back out to button it up securely.
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Mom’s Memory Sandwich Spread and onion rings for lunch
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Well hela, now that was a surprise.  Framers are here working on the floor!
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Bundesliga playoffs; The Battle for Relegation/Promotion https://www.bundesliga.com/en/ leg one
Wolfsburg v Kiel
*13th min tor/goal Wolfsburg
*34th min TOR/GOAL KIEL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*40th min tor/goal Wolfsburg
*@ the half, Wolfsburg 2:0 Kiel
*56th tor/goal Wolfsburg
*end of match/first leg, Wolfsburg 3:1 Kiel
*damn
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Only one order on the table shaper; finished it and spent the rest of the night in layout/drill/trim.  Four orders showed up after dinner break…fuck it
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower
Fell asleep in the recliner…not sure when.
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God/dess Meditation: Donar:
Donar, Son of Wodan and Erda, husband to Sibba with the Golden Hair, wielder of Malant and Great God of thunder, thunder forth in our lives. When we would hold back, encourage us to advance. When we would be weak, hearten us be strong. When we would shun life’s pleasures, inspire our appetites for that which is lusty and good. Excite our growth from strength to strength; teach us, elder brother, how to throw our own Hammer, and slay the giants who oppose our will. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, DONAR, as we honor the Donar that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 16, 2018 Wodanstag

5/16/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Wodanstag/Wodan’s Day/Wednesday (grandparents, Mother) David F. Schmidt (1895-1957) and Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
David F. Schmidt (1895-1957)
Birth 28 Feb 1885 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas
Death 1 Oct 1957 in Marion County, Kansas
*Married 22 October 1922
Mary Goertz (1888-1983)
Birth 17 March 1888 in Kismet, Kansas
Death 27 Dec 1983 in Marion County, Kansas
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Wunjo: Joy, pasture, happiness attained with the fulfillment of a wish, the strong Clanic relationship, social contacts, family ties, Clanic solidarity, fellowship, happiness, optimism, realization of true will, social and domestic harmony, good cheer, new social relationships, Fridu attained within a secure setting, a bright attitude of Wodan exposed.
Conversely:
Sadness, disruption/breakdown in the Clanic relationship, questionable social contacts, loser, miserable, loneliness, shunning, weakened family/Clanic ties, social and domestic disharmony, the inability to attain a wish, strife, alienation, pessimism, failed social relationships, Fridu is challenged, the shadow/dark side of Wodan is exposed.
*A1R8
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Sig: 
Havamal 156:
This I know as an eleventh, when

I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: Joy (Wunjo) leads to triumph (Sig).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 7hrs of sleep, 3 wake-ups
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Now what the hela are these bowls by the backyard gate?  They certainly weren’t there when I went to work yesterday and they certainly aren’t mine.  Cleaned ‘em, using ‘em.
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Chatted with a neighbor about Toby’s roaming opportunities of late.  He was amazed how Toby used the sidewalks and paused at every intersection.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée
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Oat cereal + a banana + a breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin.
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Experimented with watermelon smoothies.  Note to Self:  NOTHING BUT WATERMELON!
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Call in from the contractor; framing materials will be delivered tomorrow.
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.  Even the mailman saw Toby out and about yesterday.  I found out it was the neighbor lady who put Toby in the backyard.
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Mowed the front yard.
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Garden salad topped with chicken
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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God/dess Meditation: Wodan; Alle-Vater god!  Wandering god!  Rune god! Wolf god! Raven god! Wodan!! Husband to Frija, the Alle-Mutter.  Son to Paru and Bezzia, brother to Willo and Wîh; We call out to you, not as slaves or on bended knee, but on our feet and open-armed as befits your offspring. Watch us as we struggle, but the fight and fame must both be ours! Grant us that victory which we win by OUR might and mane! After a life battle-worn, Wodan, grant us access to our Great Ancestral Hall, where we may feast, drink the glorious mead and be merry with our heroes and our Altmâgâ. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, Wodan, as we honor the Wodan that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 15, 2018 Dienstag

5/15/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, work 8hrs
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Ancestor Meditation: Dienstag/Thing Day/Tuesday (grandparents) Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967) and Maria Hildebrand (1895-72)
Henry E. Reimer (1898-1967)
Birth 15 May 1898 in Medford, Grant County, Oklahoma, USA
Death 26 Mar 1967 in Hesston, Harvey County, Kansas, United States
*Married 2 June 1920
Maria Hildebrand (1894-72)
Birth 30 Dec 1894 in Marion County, Ks, USA
Death 22 Jul 1972 in Newton, Harvey County, KS, USA
Gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Goessel, Ks
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Isa: Ice: dormancy: a calming, self-preservation, self-centeredness resulting in a lack of change, reflective influence, stilling effect: self-control: the concentrated self: ego, das Ich (the unified, whole, principle or force), the composite plurality of Ich, be still and gain control of the Self (in all its forms): grounding, a lowering of vibration levels, patience, frigidity, and the loss of momentum.
*A2R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Ka:
Havamal 151:
A sixth one is mine, if a man wounds me

With the root of a trunk still with juice;
Then I am unscathed, the man himself is consumed
By the evil with which he threatened me.
 
Imperviousness, a reversal of fortune, the world tree, preservation of tribe or race, ancestors/ancestry, loyalty, that which is existing, defense, the polarity of the male/female principle in the Universe, opposing energies, earthly love, as executive power of balancing justice, art, capability, artist, genius, being favored, procreation, the child, force, that which is established, World Tree/the Irminsul/the All, power, generation, ability and artfulness, sensuality, higher consciousness, return.
“Your blood, your highest possession” (List, 53).
*H1R6
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Interpretation: Calm (Isa) leads to imperviousness (Ka).
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1st check on all fur-kids:
7am, 5hrs of sleep, dad gets up to do his business
Toby decides to do his business, too
* front door → back gate
Socks makes like he wants to come out from his house.
I open the sliding glass door…no thank you, dad…goes back inside
Toby wants back inside
*front door →back gate
Socks again makes like he wants to come out.  This time…ZOOM!
No going back to sleep for dad.
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Outcome: off and on sleep after the above
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I didn’t think the foundation guy was going to be here, but he was in his truck waiting for me to get moving around here because I had the Vue in the driveway.  I asked about the rain affecting the concrete.  He said it wasn’t a problem.  Foundation walls are coming down today.
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Well hela, call in from attorney; my settlement check is in.
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Whole wheat cereal and a whole wheat English muffin
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Off to Devaughn/James to pick up my settlement check.  My car accident cast is completely settled.
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Bank
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QT for a burrito lunch
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A neighbor told me he saw Toby out running around the neighborhood, but evidently, he had come home, because Toby was in the backyard.
Call into the contractor to emphasize that his crew needs to be aware of:
*the backyard gates
*a 9am start time
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Toby and I out for an early afternoon, 3-block roundy
*muggy/mild, mostly cloudy, no breeze
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A bit of watermelon with afternoon meds.
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Not a horrible shift @ work.  I opted to stay on several, rather easy, SHFs.  Not a lot of time turned-in, but I was able to stay busy with some leftover for 1st shift.
*I need that kind of experience with SHFs.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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Shower
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God/dess Meditation: Ziu
Ziu/Tyr, god of selflessness; of war & glory, one-handed god, sacrificial god, Sergeant at Arms at the Thing, enforcer of law & order, bravest of all gods; you chained the Fenris Wolf that threatened the worlds. We can’t do that, but we can do other things, some ordinary, others heroic. Remind us of your bravery and your sacrifice. Give us the courage and strength we need to fetter out own Fenris. Keep us mindful of our duties and help us keep our fears bound as tightly as you bound old Slaver Mouth. Thus doing, may we share in your glory by imitating you.  WE GIVE YOU MOST A HEART-FELT HAIL, ZIU, as we honor the Ziu that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 14, 2018 Manostag

5/14/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: my love my fiancée, hopefully pour foundation, work 8hrs.
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Ancestor Meditation: Manostag/Mano’s Day/Monday (parents) Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963) and Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994), Jewell F. Reimer [(sister) (1947)], Michael L Reimer [(brother) (1948-1997)].
Elmer H. Reimer (1924-1963
Birth 24 October 1924 in Whitewater, Butler County, Kansas, USA
*US Navy veteran, Joint Intelligence Center, Pacific Ocean Area (JICPOA)
**Naval Intelligence Office, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
*Married 23 June 1946
Death 10 October 1963 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
Anna M. Schmidt (1926-1994)
Birth 20 January 1926 in Lehigh, Marion County, Kansas, USA
Death 23 September 1994 in Wichita, Sedgwick County, Kansas, USA
I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Dagaz: Light of day, total enlightenment, awakening, the AH-HA moment, benefit from new information, achieving balance, harmony, hyper-consciousness, the light of dawn, the twilight/dawn polarity, positive focus on life, light at the end of the tunnel, increase, growth, an ending prior to a beginning, transformation, possibly related to the 3rd eye; the mystical place where the two lobes of the brain join.
*A3R7
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Is:  
Havamal 154:
A ninth one I sing, when dangers at sea forces me

To protect my ship from the stormy waves;
The storm I calm down, no matter how billowing the sea,
And I cradle the waves to sleep.
 
Calm in the face of distress, comfort, hypnotic power of the forceful will, course of affairs, Rest, Ego, das Ich, Positivity, activity, personal will, self-domination, self-control, confidence, determination, extension of the Divine center, the upright human being, the awakened Self, influence, personal power, magical power, power to banish evil, unity in the Universe, duration, action in the Cosmos, activity, will, self-domination, influence, personal power, self-discipline, unity in the Universe, duration, magical powers, axis/column/Irminsul of the world, action in the Cosmos, elimination of that which is unnecessary, calm.
“Win power over yourself and you will have power over everything in the spiritual and physical worlds that strive against you” (List, 56).
H2R3
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Interpretation: Enlightenment (Dagaz) leads to calm in the face of distress (Is).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: 8 ½ hours of sleep with two wake-ups; Toby out and in shortly after sunrise, slept-in until 8am.
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Hammering started shortly after I woke up, thankfully.  Otherwise I’d be pissed.  I had a word with the contractor.  He assured me the framing crew WILL get the word and won’t start until 9am.
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Whole grain cereal + a banana + breakfast sandwich on a whole wheat English muffin.
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Toby and I out for a pretty well behaved, late morning, 30min walk.
*warm, partly cloudy, south breeze
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Cement guy showed up promptly @ noon and began pouring the foundation.
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Finalized money for hall
Finalized money for caterer
Shit’s getting real now.
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PH for lunch with a homemade garden salad
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Eye appointment made for 7/5
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Not a horrible start, but things got worse.  I ran some unfamiliar parts that SEEMED easy enough, but I ended up scrapping a part trying to do it run it mostly free-handed.  I called the lead man to verify the scrap.  Since working the part that way didn’t work, I spent considerable time fashioning a shop-aid.  Just before I got my shop-aid to work, the lead man returned with the paperwork, verified the scrapped part, then out of the kindness of his little pea-picking heart, attributed the scrap to machine failure rather than operator failure since the table shaper started shutting down on its own and I had already called it in with a workorder number.  Such is the series of fortunate events.  I finished the shift deburring.
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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A bit of rain; I hope the concrete is good.
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God/dess Meditation: Mano, god of the moon:
Greetings to you, Mano, glorious male aspect of the moon; silver messenger on high.  You’re the measurer and teller of time.  You’re the counterpart to Sunna, the feminine aspect of the sun.  As you fly silently on your way reflect into our souls the glory of the High Ones that we might aspire to the realms of the gods. Bathe our world in soft brightness, and whisper to our souls of joyous realms beyond our knowing. Mano, let us see the goodness within us and without us, all the nights and days of our lives.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, MANO, as we honor the Mano that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 13, 2018 Sunnastag, Mother’s Day

5/13/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: ????????????????
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History of Mother’s Day
https://www.history.com/topics/holidays/mothers-day
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother%27s_Day
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Ancestor Meditation: (picture source: The Mennonite Heritage and Agricultural Museum, Goessel, Kansas) (Gravesites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite Church, Goessel, Kansas)
Sunnastag/Sunna’s Day/Sunday (2nd great grandparents) David   A. Schmidt (1822-1892) and Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
David A. Schmidt (1822-1892)
Birth 19 May 1822 in Alexanderwohl, Molotschna South, Russia
Death 18 Dec 1892 in Marion County, Kansas, United States
*Married 15 November 1849
Maria Nachtigal (1828-1911)
Birth 23 Jan 1828 in Majdan Królewski, Podkarpackie, Duchy of Poland, West Prussia
Death 01 Apr 1911 in Goessel, Marion County, Kansas, United States
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
* no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Hagalaz: The cosmic seed of potential, a sacred enclosure/shell, shaping, evolution, protection within, holiness, a type of Godotuom; destruction/regeneration, evolution, destructive elements, unavoidable unpleasantness, pruning, potentially destructive but change will occur on its own given time.  Embrace the necessary destruction.  Don't rail against it.  Benefit from it.
*A2R1
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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Armanen Rune: Not: 
Havamal 153:
An eighth is mine, to all the Folk

Useful to know in their suffering;
Where hatred rises-up between man and man,
This I can settle fast.
 
Distress, suffering, compulsion of fate, separation, confrontation, strife settled, understanding suffering, settled calm, mind over matter, necessity of fate, misery and death, change of luck as necessity, decision of the Wurtâ, Wurt/Urlag paid-for, cause-effect relations, capability to restructure Wurt/Urlag, That which cannot be averted, the Ur-law that is active in every creature, stress, karmic debt, karmic need, but with outlook for change of karma, banishing ill fortune by means of accepting karma and karmic law, Skuld, Divine justice that balances.
“Use your fate, do not strive against it” (List, 55).
*H2R2
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Interpretation: Evolution (Hagalaz) leads to strife settled (Not).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Outcome: Probably about 7-8hrs of decent sleep as I’m not sure when I actually went to bed last night.  Fell asleep petting Essie on the bed.
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Another my health by the numbers:
Weight: 256
Glucose: 129
BP: 141/75
Pulse: 78
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Watered the baby shrub in the back yard as I didn’t do it last night.  All shrubs planted this year seem pretty happy so far.
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More construction today with foundation framing.  The old guy was here just before 9am.
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; another rough night for her.
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Extended chat with my love’s son-in-law about wedding plans.
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3-eggs sunny-side-up, whole-wheat bread for sopping, diced potatoes, 6-slices of deli ham
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I missed Wednesday’s match for Sporting Kansas City; several other matches as well:
Atlanta v Sporting Kansas City
*@ the half 0:0
*67th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*87th min GOAL SKC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*end of match; Atlanta 0:2 Sporting Kansas City
*SKC WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
https://matchcenter.mlssoccer.com/matchcenter/2018-05-09-atlanta-united-fc-vs-sporting-kansas-city/recap
Columbus 1:0 Philly
Toronto 1:2 Seattle
Chicago 1:0 Montréal
LAFC 2:0 Minnesota  
OH SHIT!  AND FRIDAY!
Vancouver 2:2 Houston
Totally blew-off yesterday’s MLS as I delved into the relegation/promotion within the Bundesliga
https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Minnesota 1:3 San Jose
Montréal 0:2 Philly
Dallas 3:2 LA
Columbus 3:0 Chicago
New England 3:2 Toronto
Colorado 1:2 NYRB
Salt Lake 3:2 DC
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Toby and I out for a well behaved, noon hour, 30min walk.
Mildly warm, cloudy, south breeze
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Shower
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QT for a snack
Lowe’s
Dillons
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Hodgepodge for dinner
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TODAY’S MLS MATCHES: https://www.mlssoccer.com/
Portland 1:0 Seattle
Orlando 1:2 Atlanta on FS1/Sling-TV
LAFC 2:2 NYCFC
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Late, brief visit with Sisser
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Fifty Shades Freed; weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeell…
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Last check on all fur-kids.
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God/dess Meditation: Paltar, you're the blameless god, gloriously shining god, rising god, restoration god, husband to the faithful Nanda, beloved son of Wodan and Frija.  Just as you restore Mittigart after Godotuom, restore us after we experience our own Godotuoms of life.  Let your goodness and your reconciliation smooth our paths on Earth. When our days here are over, light up death’s darkness with the promise of rebirth. Help us to avoid evil and seek the good. Inspired by your example, we will keep our reputations spotless that our lives be proclaimed a victory of the Spirit, and our leaving his life a tragedy. WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, PALTAR, as we honor the Paltar that resides in us all!
*source: combination AFA Book of Uncommon Prayers, and C.Reimer/V.Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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May/Wonnemânôd 12, 2018 Tag der Fruchtbarkeit

5/12/2018

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(Wonnemânôd = Blissful Month)
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Plans: ?????????????????
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Ancestor Meditation: (grave-sites @ Alexanderwohl Mennonite, Goessel, Ks and Medford Oklahoma Mennonite respectively) Tag der Fruchtbarkeit/Day of Fertility/Saturday (2nd great grandparents) Peter Amos Reimer (1832-1905) and Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Peter A Reimer (1832-1905)
Birth 17 Sept 1832 in Ohrloff, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Sept 1905 in Goessel, KS
*Married 22 September 1858
Agatha Dirksen (1840-1905)
Birth 07 Apr 1840 in Sparrau, Molotschna, South Russia
Death 3 Apr 1905 in Medford, OK
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I honor you this day, and I honor every bit of you that resides in me.  I’m grateful for the strong German heritage you’ve provided. I look forward with eager anticipation to the great family reunion on the other side.  I offer you my undying love, honor, respect, and gratitude.
*no doubt the ones who brought the family over from Europe.
*offered up some tobacco for Granny Aggie.
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Elder Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Elder Runes in your way
Advise the mortal man today
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Elder Rune: Isa: Ice: dormancy: a calming, self-preservation, self-centeredness resulting in a lack of change, reflective influence, stilling effect: self-control: the concentrated self: ego, das Ich (the unified, whole, principle or force), the composite plurality of Ich, be still and gain control of the Self (in all its forms): grounding, a lowering of vibration levels, patience, frigidity, and the loss of momentum.
*A2R3
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Armanen Rune Summons:
Born of fire, born of ice
Life is lived at such a price
Armanen Runes in your way
Advise the Spirit man today
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​Armanen Rune: Sig: 
Havamal 156:
This I know as an eleventh, when
I accompany my dear friend into combat;
I sing it into the shield, so that he triumphs in battle
And that luck and happiness surrounds him always.
 
Triumph, surrounded with luck and happiness, victory, success, gain, well-being, victorious and happy, into the fray, blessing from above, successful fight, achieved goal, school, and salvation by light, inspiration, soul, and power of the sun, inspiration, soul, life force, wholeness, reliable success, healing, good luck, spiritual completion, and the path of the soul, Rune of the spiritual ray of inspiration, wisdom, and illumination.
“The creative spirit must conquer” (List, 57).
*H2R5
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Interpretation: Calm (Isa) leads to victory (Sig).
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1st check on all fur-kids
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Good morning chat with my love my fiancée; another rough night for her.
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Well hela, the old man IS working on the room addition; more foundation work.  He said he may be back tomorrow if his help doesn’t show.
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Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/ final day of the season
Wolfsburg 2:1 Köln; Köln is relegated to 2 Bundesliga
Freiburg 2:0 Augsburg
Berlin 2:6 Leipzig (WOW!)
Hamburger 2:1 Borussia Monchengladbach; Hamburger MAY be relegated to 2 Bundesliga for the first time in its history with the Bundesliga
Hoffenheim 3-1 Borussia Dortmund
München 1:4 Stuttgart; like it really matters
Mainz 1:2 Bremen
Leverkusen 3:2 Hannover
Schalke 1:0 Frankfurt
Thus, this ends this Bundesliga season.  Okay, the way I understand this is:
  • München are champs for the 6th straight season
  • München, Schalke, Hoffenheim, Dortmund, Leverkusen, Leipzig, and Stuttgart are all into the Europa Champions league.
  • Köln is relegated
  • Then there’s the relegation playoff that I am trying to understand.  It seems there is a playoff between #16 and 17, in this case, Wolfsburg and Hamburger, to AVOID relegation.  The winner of that series plays…well, then I get lost.  This is the link I’m using to try to understand:  https://www.bundesliga.com/en/news/Bundesliga/relegation-play-off-what-who-when-is-it-hamburg-wolfsburg-freiburg-480771.jsp
  • Table: https://www.bundesliga.com/en/stats/table/
  • HOWEVER, THE WORLD CUP 2018 IN RUSSIA BEGINS JUNE 14TH!  https://www.fifa.com/worldcup/
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My health by the numbers:
Weight: 256
Glucose: 136
BP: 145/74
Pulse: 87
Methinks I’ll try this again tomorrow.
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Brunch: 3-egg cheese omelet, leftover porkchop, homemade hashbrowns.
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Okay, just chatted with my Fb brother in Kiel, Germany about the relegation process in the Bundesliga and clarified everything.  The last two teams on the table (Köln and Hamburger) are automatically relegated to 2 Bundesliga. The top two teams in 2 Bundesliga (Nürnberg and Düsseldorf) are automatically promoted to 1 Bundesliga.  The struggle comes with the third-place finishers both top and bottom.  So, it’s Wolfsburg (#16 in 1 Bundesliga) v Kiel (#3 in 2 Bundesliga) for a 2-game aggregate series in their respective stadiums.  If Wolfsburg wins, they stay in 1 Bundesliga.  If Kiel wins, they will be promoted to 1 Bundesliga.
*It’s all about the money.
There are actually 3 levels of football in Germany:
1 Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/en/
2 Bundesliga https://www.bundesliga.com/de/2bundesliga/
3 Liga https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3._Liga
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WOW!  14:30 and I have barely stepped out the door.
*Isa/Sig…HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA…
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The old guy left around 3pm.  It may take him a bit longer to do things, but he sure plugs along.
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2 loads of laundry
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Dillons
Dillons petrol
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FC Wichita v St Louis Club Atletico (NPSL)
@ the half, FCW 3-2 SLCA
End of match; FC Wichita 4:2 St Louis Club Atletico
FCW WINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Watered baby shrubs and trees but am saving the backyard shrub for tomorrow morning.  It’s a-whole-nother unfamiliar world back there now
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Last check on all fur-kids.  Socks is out and about.
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Fell asleep petting Essie on the bed.
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God/dess Meditation: Saga, glorious goddess of history, we greatly honor you as part and parcel of our ever-expanding past.  As we share in Minnatranc, whisper to our hearts of the stories about our gods, our ancestors, our heroes and their glories.  Be the resource for our memories should we ever forget from whence we come.  Gently remind us that we all have a rich history from which to pull.  For it is as we remember and respect the past can we deal with our present, knowing that we will someday have to deal with our spiritual debt.  We honor you, Saga, as a repository for the basis of all that we are, all that we are coming to be, and all that our offspring will inherit from us.  WE GIVE YOU A MOST HEART-FELT HEIL, SAGA, as we honor the Saga that resides in us all.
*C. Reimer/V. Elmersson
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Alaf Sal Fena!
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